Open Mouthed - Law Dictionary Search Results
Home Dictionary Name: open mouthedOpen mouthed
Having the mouth open gaping hence greedy clamorous...
opened
having the covering skin pulled back used of mouth or eyes as his mouth slightly opened Opposite of closed...
Gapingstock
One who is an object of open mouthed wonder...
Mouth
The opening through which an animal receives food the aperture between the jaws or between the lips also the cavity containing the tongue and teeth between the lips and the pharynx the buccal cavity...
Ringent
Having the lips widely separated and gaping like an open mouth as a ringent bilabiate corolla...
Snoring
The act of respiring through the open mouth so that the currents of inspired and expired air cause a vibration of the uvula and soft palate thus giving rise to a sound more or less harsh It is usually unvoluntary but may be produced voluntarily...
Abeyance, or Abbayance
Abeyance, or Abbayance [fr. abayer, Fr., to expect, to look at anything with open mouth], in expectation, remembrance, and contemplation of law. The word abeyance has been compared to what the civilians call hereditas jacens; for, as the civilians say land and goods jacent, so the common lawyers say that things in a similar condition are in abeyance, as the logicians term it in posse or in understanding. Thus in the case of a parson, who has an estate for life only, the fee simple of his glebe is in abeyance; and when the parsonage is void, the freehold, until a successor be appointed, is in abeyance, 2. Bl. Com. 107. Commonly used as meaning having no present owner, e.g., a peerage is said to be 'in abeyance' when there is no holder thereof....
Open space
Open space, means it is only with reference to the country that the word 'open' carries the meaning 'free from wood building etc.' Accepting the several meanings of the word 'open' the existence of 7 or 8 scattered trees within the space sixty feet wide all round would not render the entire space any less an open space within the meaning of that expression in the proviso to rule 18(a) of the Madras Places of Public Resort Act II of 1888. It is equally clear that the existence of say one free at one corner of the space would not prevent the space being an open space, Nachimuthu v. Ramaswami Chettiar, 69 MLW 887: (1956) 2 MLJ 556 (DB).By the (English) Metropolitan Open Spaces Acts of 1877 and 1881, the (English) Metropolitan Board of Works (succeeded by the London County Council, under s. 40, sub-s. 8, of the (English) Local Government Act, 1888) had power to acquire and to hold of the use of the public any open spaces within the metropolis. These Acts were extended, with amendments, to ...
Bell mouthed
Expanding at the mouth as a bell mouthed gun...
Mouth freshener
Mouth freshener, the pan masala and the mouth freshener are within the meaning of 'food' unders. 2(v) of the Prevention of Food Adulteration Act, Krishna Gopal Sharma v. Government of NCT of Delhi, (1996) 4 SCC 513 (518). [Prevention of Food Adulteration Act, 1934 s. 2(v)]...
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